On 06/21/2015 11:54 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 21/06/2015 Kay Schenk wrote:
>> yes, they would be...based on the buildbot failure alone, I think the SF
>> mirror must have been deactivated just a day or so ago.
> 
> Could it be that this is an unintended consequence of SourceForge's new
> policy when they decided, for transparency towards the community, to
> avoid mirrors that had not been asked for?
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/project-mirroring-policies-will-be-revisited-with-our-community-panel-existing-mirrors-removed/
> 
> 
> It seems clear that
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/ was definitely
> to be kept (or, while at it, we could have it relocated to
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras/ or something else like
> apache-extras-openoffice).

Oh my! I did not see/hear about this. Given the June 18 notice, yes, I
would certainly say this applies to AOO and why the mirror service was
stopped.

OK, I'm looking specifically at this paragraph from the link you sent--

"Mirrors which are not co-maintained with the one or more of the
original developers, except where the upstream site has been
discontinued, have been removed effective immediately. An extensive
review has been conducted of the 295 mirrored projects and removals were
completed on June 18th. Where a SourceForge-maintained mirror has been
removed, we have redirected this traffic back to the canonical home for
the software (whence it was mirrored to begin with)."

Basically since "ooo-extras" are copies with md5 sums applied for our
own uses, and we are NOT the original developers,  this would definitely
apply.

In most cases, we have the provider links to these items listed as URL1
in /main/external_deps.lst. So, should we just change this file to use
URL1 as default and forget ooo-extras altogether?

We would need to see how this affects configuration which I've had
problems with in the past when these sources haven't bee kept up to date
in /ext_sources. It's likely we would need some alternate verification
method.




> 
>>> The direct download from
>>> http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz
>>> and
>>> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tgz
>>> works for me. I don't know why it doesn't work for bootstrap.
> 
> At times, the first download fails since the .gz file is uncompressed
> during download. So basically you download file.tar.gz and what you get
> is a file named "file.tar.gz" but with the contents of "file.tar" (and
> thus a different md5sum). If someone wants to hack the Perl file or file
> this in an issue it would be perfect. But the fallback always worked, so
> this hasn't been high priority.
> 
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
> 
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